Pakistan Coalition on Media Safety

Month: May 2020

Mir Shakil’s bail plea hearing could not be held

LAHORE: Hearing on the bail petition of Jang group’s editor-in-chief Mir Shakilur Rehman in a 34-year-old land allotment case could not be held on Thursday due to unavailability of a division bench of the Lahore High Court. On the last hearing, a bench comprising Justice Sardar Ahmad Naeem and Justice Farooq Haider had heard the […]

APP Reporter Seriously Injured In Pre-dawn Attack

PESHAWAR: Senior Sports Reporter of the Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) Peshawar Bureau, Ijaz Ahmed Khan sustained serious head injury in a pre-dawn attack near Northern Bypass in the limits of Khazana Police Station here on Wednesday. He was rushed to a hospital by his relatives, where he got stitches on his head. He was […]

Live bullets thrown at protest camp

RAWALPINDI: An unidentified person threw live bullets on the peaceful protesters at the protest camp outside the offices of the Jang and The News at Murree Road here on Monday against the illegal arrest of Jang/Geo Group Editor-in-Chief Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman and flee the scene. The unknown person also abused and harassed the peaceful protesters before […]

NAB approves reference against Nawaz, Jang editor

LAHORE: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Lahore has approved filing of a reference against former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, Jang Group Editor-in-Chief Mir Shakilur Rahman and two others in a land case. The approval to file a reference against the four suspects in the 34-year-old case was given in a meeting of the NAB regional […]

PFUJ expresses resolve to continue struggle

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) has expressed its resolve to continue its struggle for freedom of press. “May 13 is observed as day of remembrance, for four journalists, who were sentenced to five public lashes (each) and imprisonment in 1978, during General Zia-ul-Haq’s dictatorial regime,” the statement jointly issued by PFUJ President Shahzada […]